Are You Sitting Down? Riggio Says to Raise Prices The NYT finally gets around to covering recent industry stats, including those from BISG. There’s only one thing new in here, and it’s buried because they obviously didn’t realize its importance: Barnes & Noble CEO Steve Riggio “said he thought it was time for publishers to consider raising prices. ‘I’m not asking for publishers to start raising prices 10 percent,’ he said, ‘but perhaps a little price inflation in the coming years would not have a deleterious effect on unit sales.'” NYT The Big Picture The most unexpected reason you may […]
